Motivational Quotes

Work

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Work

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.

Schembechler, Bo

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Hubbard, Elbert

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

David Shore

Want is the mother of industry.

Proverb

10.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Jong, Erica

12.

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Yankelovitch, Daniel

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

16.

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

18.

By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

19.

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

20.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Carnegie, Andrew

21.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Lennon, John

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

29.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original.They are rarely useful.The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.

Block, A Harvey

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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Mead, Margaret

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

34.

My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

35.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

Proverb

36.

The work will stand, no matter what.

Streep, Meryl

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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Cohen, Leonard

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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

39.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

40.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Barzan, Gerald

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

Billings, Josh

43.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes -- and six months later you have to start all over again.

Rivers, Joan

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Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

Mcintosh, M. C.

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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Carty, Margaret

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.